J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.
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Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
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Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
